Raw sewage bubbling up from beneath Wilson Avenue in Newark outside the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission treatment plant on Newark Bay, which shut down Monday night after being flooded by Sandy ...

Since the late 18th century, the heavy industry that lines New Jersey’s Newark Bay has belched a thousand insidious contaminants into the waterway. Tanneries used sulfuric acid to strip hides ...

Since places like Newark Bay became heavily polluted in the early to mid 20th century, ... Berry’s Creek, has had some of the highest levels of mercury in a U.S. waterway.

But as it flows 23 miles from the Oradell Dam to Newark Bay, the lower Hackensack River is perhaps North Jersey's most vibrant waterway, bursting with life in some unlikely places.

The Newark Bay-Hudson County Extension Improvements Program is an $11 billion project that will double the number of lanes through Bayonne and Jersey City, as well as rebuild the Newark Bay Bridge ...

By one measure, the Bound Brook might be the most polluted body of water in New Jersey: The state says you shouldn't eat fish – not even one per year – from its depths. In contrast, an ...